Inflation-indexed bonds are fixed-income securities whose nominal cash flows are adjusted to an inflation index. In countries where these securities exist, inflation expectations are sometimes estimated as the spread between the nominal yield on a conventional bond and the real yield on an...

Maravall and del Río (2001), analized the time aggregation properties of the Hodrick-Prescott (HP) filter, which decomposes a time series into trend and cycle, for the case of annual, quarterly, and monthly data, and showed that aggregation of the disaggregate component cannot be obtained as...

This paper aims at analysing the impact of household borrowing on consumption. These variables are modelled jointly in a Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) where labour income, wealth variables and nominal interest rates are also included. The main estimation result is that deviations of...

Household indebtedness has risen sharply in recent years, with large increases in both secured and unsecured borrowing. In this paper, waves 5 and 10 of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) for 1995 and 2000 are used to examine the determinants of participation in the unsecured debt market...

The time aggregation properties of the Hodrick-Prescott (HP) filter to decompose a time series into trend and cycle are analized for the case of annual, quarterly, and monthly data. It is seen that aggregation of the disagreggate component estimators cannot be obtained as the exact result from...

En este trabajo se estudia la evolución reciente del endeudamiento de los hogares españoles. Para ello se realiza, en primer lugar, un análisis descriptivo de la situación patrimonial de las familias españolas que incluye una comparación internacional y una estimación de la carga...

We analyze historical business cycles as a sum of short- and medium-term cycles defined for a particular class of unobserved component models. By associating the trend with the low frequencies of the pseudo-spectrum in the frequency domain, manipulation of the spectral bandwidth will allow us to...

This paper investigates the presence of liquidity premia in the relative pricing of assets traded on the Spanish government securities market. First, we propose a classification of bonds into four different categories based on their degree of liquidity. Second, we estimate liquidity premia,...

En este trabajo se estima un modelo para analizar los determinantes de la financiación de las sociedades no financieras españolas a nivel agregado. Los resultados muestran que la financiación depende, en el largo plazo, positivamente del nivel de actividad económica y negativamente de los...